{"id":3114,"date":"2010-07-15T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/man-church\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:25:21","slug":"man-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/man-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Church!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cschandler.com\/manchurch\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Man Church is church the way a man expects it to be done. No singing, short sermon, time to talk with other guys, no women present, and coffee and donuts. That\u2019s the way men want to do church. The topics of discussion will have a definite manly focus \u2013 being the best possible husband, father, employee, leader \u2013 being a real man. In fact, every aspect of Man Church is geared for men \u2013 not like any other church you have seen. This ain\u2019t your mama\u2019s church!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br>One of the odd outreach efforts from our Funny Little Protestant Friends, because Lord knows Evangelicalism doesn\u2019t have enough niche marketing, consumerist theology and splintering sectarianism.  <\/p>\n<p>I must say, though, that I particularly enjoyed the idea of a sermon titled \u201cEmbrace the Suck!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man Church is church the way a man expects it to be done. 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